Holder Of... Cookies?

I seem to find myself with a box of neverending cookies. The more I take out, the more I have in the box. At one point I had just 12 left, and, several cookies eaten later, I find 13 left in the box. Madness as it is, that is what I have.

In other news, the air conditioning is still not fixed, and I broke one of the blades on my fan so it now cannot spin properly and I must replace it.

Project Shovel

Then again, I could always change my mind.

It really was time I got the renewed AnacondaSoftware site uploaded, since it had been sitting pretty much done for a month now. So I finally did it, and it exposed a few things that I couldn't have seen from the test environment where i developed the theme. One of them I had to post a question on the PivotX site about, so I'll get that fixed up later next week, hopefully.

And with it, I changed my mind and decided to post the introduction to the novel, Spiral Island: Feint Innocence. This novel is the story of the game in it's most complete form, and I plan on coming back sometime later after releasing the game and remaking the game in this full form. Right now though, of course, the focus is getting it released in the Classic form, which, with some expansion of my vocabulary from the time I got out of High School altering the script some, is the way it would have been back when I was originally going to release it in 2003.

I originally started it some years ago, I don't know when, because at some point the file I was working on it disappeared completely. Just gone, I haven't found it on any of my old hard drives, and I haven't found it in any of numerous different backups. It simply vanished, taking with it the work I had done on it at that time. It was actually a long time before I decided to try rewriting it, because I wanted to finish searching everything before I gave up hope on finding it and having to do it again. Ultimately, I couldn't find it, so I had to start over.

Project Shovel is the codename for the novel itself. This means nothing more than my own pure amusement, and shouldn't be regarded as anything else. As it happened, late into the night when I was working on the restarted document, as tiredness crept in I saw the filename in my taskbar "SInovel.odt", and my eyes blurred it together. Continuing on, due to fatigue, I was wondering for several moments what the document was, because I didn't remember ever saving a file by the name of "Shovel.odt". I found it absolutely hilarious after realizing my mistake, and renamed the file accordingly.

Split Minds

Well, the AC still isn't fixed, but it is somewhat cooler today outside so the temperature's not so bad. I was going to go work from the library, but I woke up too late to do that. 

First off, as I mentioned on the AnacondaSoftware forum, Spiral Island has been split into two titles for the XBOX version. Mind you, I read about the announcement of the changing price points last Friday, while my AC was out, and because of the burnout I literally did not come up with this obvious solution for hours, I just mulled over general anger about it because I wasn't really able to think it through.

That aside, the game still doesn't have the entire story. The game follows the main character exclusively, and doesn't give you any extrinsic information that is not known by Amy herself. This is actually the reason why there are two parts to the story, the happenings themselves, and then Amy trying to piece it together for her report without the missing information to explain how strange everything is. 

Collectively, with everything together, the entire storyline is told in a novel I'm working on. There were a couple reasons for withholding the parts that weren't centered on Amy. One of them was for some things that would be simply too difficult to pull off in the 2D format, but mainly I didn't want to dilute the importance of Amy's role. She is the focus of the story, after all, spending too much time on the others would then make a person think otherwise.

It would be a while before I finish writing the novel completely, so I'm not going to really go into it further right now. But I think a little after the game is finally released I'll post the introduction to it. I don't want to post it before because it does contain some spoilers for the storyline, and the game's introduction is a more abbreviated form of what I have written there.

It Happened Again?

Yep, I happened to have had a birthday yet again. But no I don't particularly have much to say, because our AC is still out and it's still hot. I do have a couple things I want to talk about later, though, so I'll go into that soon.

Melting

I have nothing coherent to say today. Our A/C is not working, and my brain is melting. Prepring to use my Holder power to try and cool things down around here. I would go to the swimming pool at the fitness center I have a membership for, but since my car isn't drivable, and it would be too long of a train and bus ride, I'm not. Instead, I'll just sit here trying to keep cool somehow.